FLEX publishes a new briefing examining the impact of the pandemic on labour exploitation. It finds it will raise the risk of exploitation for specific categories of workers who were already made more vulnerable to abuse by migration and social protection policies. FLEX provides clear recommendations to protect these workers and ensure modern slavery offences do not rise as a result of the virus.
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2 Apr 2020
FLEX comments on today's announcement of the 2019 NRM statistics.
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19 Mar 2020
Today, FLEX publishes a new report, Worker-Driven Social Responsibility: Exploring a New Model for Tackling Labour Abuse in Supply Chains. The report explores ‘worker-driven social responsibility’ (WSR) as a tool for ensuring decent work for outsourced, subcontracted and offshored workers and questions how it might work in different contexts.
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5 Mar 2020
FLEX provides comment on the newly introduced Immigration Bill.
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4 Mar 2020
For International Women’s Day, which takes place on Sunday 8th March 2020, FLEX highlights the need for new approaches to tackle sexual harassment and Gender-Based Violence at work.
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28 Feb 2020
Worker-driven social responsibility (WSR) is a new model for tackling labour abuse and exploitation in supply chains. Recognising its success in the US and elsewhere, FLEX has been scoping the adaptability of the model to the UK context. This research aims to provide useful insights on transferability of WSR to new contexts and sectors. Join us on 25th March 2020, together with the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network, for a webinar to discuss our findings and the model more broadly.
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24 Jan 2020
This survey, designed with input from FLEX Peer Researchers, will help us understand how wide-ranging the problems uncovered so far are, and build up the robust evidence base needed to create labour market policies that truly work for workers, especially those most marginalised.
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19 Dec 2019
To celebrate International Migrants Day on December 18th, this week FLEX will publish four new blogs written by our peer researchers, in which they share their experiences as migrant workers in the UK and their views on what is needed to ensure our workplaces are free from abuse and exploitation.
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18 Dec 2019
To celebrate International Migrants Day on December 18th, this week FLEX will publish four new blogs written by our peer researchers, in which they share their experiences as migrant workers in the UK and their views on what is needed to ensure our workplaces are free from abuse and exploitation.
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17 Dec 2019
To celebrate International Migrants Day on December 18th, this week FLEX will publish four new blogs written by our peer researchers, in which they share their experiences as migrant workers in the UK and their views on what is needed to ensure our workplaces are free from abuse and exploitation.